Friday March 6, 2009

First thing Friday morning, 7am, Connor began working on his math pages. He missed a few days of math (because of the boat building and then the educational assessment) and he now has to "catch up." Actually, Connor only has 20 pages left in his first math workbook. In an entire year at public school he has never finished the entire workbook, and he is almost done after 6 weeks of homeschooling. And no, I don't spend too much time on math. We spend less than an hour a day. The boat building class applies the math lessons,and that is probably where most of the real learning takes place. After math, we went to Mass at St. Matthew. From there, we went to Rochester for Chess. On the way, we listened to our Chinese Cd. We are both getting a whole lot better, I'm happy to say. Connor had a private chess lesson with Ken McBride. What an amazing teacher. Then he played games for an hour with a homeschooling group comprised of 10 boys. After chess, Connor began reading his new book, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, a historical fiction set in the 1800's. When we got home, Connor responded to a writing prompt on the book My Brother Sam is Dead, practiced guitar, practiced Latin, wrote a reader response on a short story, The Chicken Coop Monster, filled out a character chart, brainstormed about conflicts for his mystery story, Shepard software (for geography) and completed another unit in his vocabulary book. A whole lot of work today!